Emil Nolde
Nolde 1867 - 1956 Seebüll
Hamburg, free port, 1910
etching
Hand-signed in pencil lower right
Sheet size: 41.5 x 52.5 cm
One of probably only 30 copies
Schiefler catalog raisonné 137II
Authenticity will be confirmed in writing.
The German painter and graphic artist Emil Nolde was born on August 7, 1867 in the town of Nolde. The artist's original name was Emil Hansen, but from 1901 he named himself after his birthplace. The tender country boy's artistic talent became apparent early on. In 1884 he became an apprentice in a furniture workshop in Flensburg, and later attended the Sauermann carving school there until 1888. In 1889/90 Emil Nolde studied at the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe. He creates templates for furniture manufacturers in Munich and Karlsruhe.
In 1890/91 Nolde was in Berlin. In 1892 he got a job as a drawing teacher at the school of the Industrial and Commercial Museum in St. Gallen. Here, cartoonish drawings of the Swiss mountains as giants and natural figures were created, which were published as postcard motifs so successfully that they gave Nolde unexpected financial independence for years.
In 1898 he began studying painting in Friedrich Fehr's painting school in Munich, and in 1899 he attended the Hölzel School in Dachau. However, Nolde still feels far away from his longed-for goal of great painting and he has to work hard to achieve it, because he always doubts his own talent, but never allows himself to be completely deterred.
In 1899/1900 Emil Nolde was in Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. from 1901 Nolde had his own studio in Berlin. He fell ill with tuberculosis and spent the summer months up to 1913 on his parents' farm in North Schleswig, in Jutland and on the island of Alsen. In 1904/05 he traveled to Italy.
In 1906 Emil Nolde became a member of the "Berlin Secession". Also in 1906, Emil Nolde's works took place in the Arnold Gallery in Dresden, through which the "Brücke" artists became aware of him and sought contact with him. Nolde joined the artist community "Brücke", but was too much of a loner and separated from it again in 1907.
In 1911 Nolde became a member of the "New Berlin Secession". In 1913/14 Nolde went on a trip to the South Seas with his wife Ada, during which he created impressive sketches and watercolors of the people along the entire journey.
In 1916 the artist moved to Utenwarf. In 1926 Emil Nolde and his wife moved to Seebüll, where he built a studio house. with the change in cultural policy, Nolde was not spared and in 1933 he was ostracized as a degenerate artist. He was expelled from the Prussian Academy of Arts, where he had been a member since 1930. 1,052 of his works were removed from German museums and he was also banned from painting in 1941.
In the years that followed until his death, Emil Nolde worked on mainly small-format watercolors, which he called the "Unpainted Pictures". Over 1,300 sheets were created, landscapes, figure paintings, floral still lifes in intense, bright colors. Nolde is a gifted colorist.
Emil Nolde died on April 13, 1956 in Seebüll. The studio and residential building was converted into a museum in 1956 as the “Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation”.
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